The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-06-17


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THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The flags on all the public buildings in
Washington were ordered placed at half
mast on the 9TH in honor of the late William
A. Wheeler, ex-Vice-P President.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has bean made an
honorary member Of the Actors Fund.
THE scaffolding of warehouse gave
way at Washington recently. Six men were
precipitated to the ground, one Of whom
was killed and the remainder seriously
injured.
SECRETARY FAIRCHILD, OF the National
Treasury Department, has ordered the rev.
cnue marine vessels to patrol the coast as
Gar as possible to assist in the maintenance
Ut quarantine.
COMMODORE BANCROFT GERARDI and
Captain George Brown have passed exam
nations to be Rear Admiral and COmmo-
dore, respectively, in the navy. Admiral
Franklin will retire on the 4th Of August,
and will be succeeded BY Commodore Ger
srdi.
The thirty-seventh annual session Of the
Grand Lodge of the American Protestant
Association began at Washington on the
Sth.
LIEUTENANT. W. GRAYDoN, q retired
naval OH Ger, has lately been making some
experiments in quarries near Washington
with q new explosive intended to supplant
dynamite for blasting purposes. So far his
experiments have met with remarkable re-
suits, and quarrymen say the new compound
develops power three or four times great
er than dynamite.
The Washington Critic says: 1.-THE al
legged American officer who committed sui
eide last week at Monte Carlo is supposed
by many officers to be Lieutenant John J.
Shaw, lately of the Sixth Infantry, who was
dropped from the roll of the army May Q
for desertion."
The President returned to Washington
on the night of the 10th from his fishing ex-
curslon to New York.
A NUMBER Of dismissals will be made in
the Quartermaster Generals Office Of the
War Department at the beginning Of the
provisions Of the Legislative Appropriation
bill passed at the last session Of Congress-
A competitive examination will be made to
ascertain who shall be retained.
THE EAST.
EDITOR WILLIAM O'BRIEN has received
many kilograms and personal messages
UNFOLDING him for his stand taken in alb
senting himself from the New York labor
demonstration.
SUPREME Court Judge. William Murray,
Delhi, N. Y, died suddenly of apoplexy in
Elmira, the other morning.
ALL the differences between the stove
manufacturers and holders of Pittsburgh
have been adjusted.
A NAVAL court martial assembled at New
York on the 9TH to inquire into the causes
OF the collision between the Celtic and Brit
annie, both of the White Star line.
JAY GOULD was reported quite sick at
Fortress Monroe.
The Boot and Shoe Makers Convention
met at Brockton, Mass, on the 9Th, several
hundred delegates bong present.
The locomotive boiler of . freight train
on the Baltimore & Ohio exploded at Ches-
ter, Pa, on the 9TH, killing two men and in
juring several others.
The funeral of ex-Vice- President Wheel
er took place at Malone, n. Y, on the 9TH.
The services were held in the Congrega-
tionai Church.
York on the night Of the 9TH to Editor
OBrien.
The Synod Of the Reformed Presbyterian
recently, adopted resolutions denouncing
secret societies.
WILLIAM AIMIsoN, Of Nashville, Tenn,
has been reelected president Of the Inter-
national typographical Union.
THE Supreme Court of New York City has
decided that pool selling outside of race
tracks is not contrary to law.
The Pittsburgh Western railway was
sold at auction recently in Pittsburgh for
100000
FRANK B. LAWRENCE has been elected by
reclamation for third term as Grand Mas
ter of the Grand Lodge of Masons Of the
State of New York
THE wife of Henry Bergh, the noted New
York humanitarian, died in Utica, n. Y,
the other day after long illness.
A NATIONAL convention Of factory in
spectors was held in Philadelphia on the
18th.
A wATERsPoUT broke at Hooversville, Pa,
on the 9Th, flooding that and other towns.
Much damage was done, numbers of dwell
ings beng wrecked. There were rumors
Of loss of life.
HoN. J. G. BLAINE, his wife and two
daughters left New York on the Sth for
Europe.
MIKE GRAcE,t the brother of Mayor Grace,
OF New York, was killed recently in the
Tompova gulch, eighty-five miles south of
Crittenden, Ari., by Apaches.
COLLECTOR SALToNsTALL, of Boston, has
imposed fine of 81 GOO upon the Cunard
Steamship Company for permitting an in
sane woman to Land from one Of their YES
sells
The New York Grant Monument Asso-
citation has issued call for designs for q
monument or memorial building at General
Grants tomb.
JOHN H. EwING. uncle of James G. Blaine
and the oldest citizen of Washington, Pa,
died recently, aged ninety.
AARON L. Still, . noted negro Adolf
Zionist Of Pennsylvania, died the other day
at Reading. aged slXty-seven.
W. E CHANDLER has received the Re
publican caucus nomination for Senator for
New Hampshire.
JERE DUNN, Tom Gould and several other
bunco steerers and confidence men got into
the Prudence Lodge of Masonry at New
York. The fact was brought before the
Grand Lodge recently, q special committee
severely condemning the admission of such
men into the order.
The Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh
Railway Company has decided to increase
its capital stock 81, 0O. OOO
JUDGE GORDON, Of Philadelphia, has de-
hvered an opinion refusing the petition of